Dating services– category –

Two friends of mine went from a first Hinge message to a spouse visa application inside two years, and both told me the same thing afterward: the dating-app part was the easy half. Marrying a Japanese national as a foreign resident invol...

A friend of mine nearly wired money to a match he had never met in person, after six weeks of daily messages that felt completely genuine. Romance scams targeting foreign residents on dating apps in Japan are not rare, and they follow re...

Most dating-app advice written for Japan is built around the male foreign-resident experience, and that framing quietly fails foreign women, whose actual problems on these apps are different. The recurring complaint I hear from foreign w...

Tinder was the first app I installed in Tokyo, and for the first two weeks it felt like it was working — until the matches thinned out and most of them turned out to be other expats. The app itself is not the problem; most foreign users ...

I put off installing Wakuwaku Mail for almost a year because it has zero English support, and that was a mistake. Once I finally set up a profile, DeepL, and Google Lens together, it turned into the app where I actually met Japanese peop...